Vic Fingerhut

Veteran Democratic political consultant Vic Fingerhut offers his advice on how Democrats can win in 2012. He says Democrats need to show Americans they are rip roaring populists who can get the country back on track.

Miles Rapoport

Miles Rapoport, president of the non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization Demos, joins us to discuss voter registration levels. Advocates of voter ID laws and other registration hurdles say it cuts down on voter fraud, but Rapoport says it really keeps Americans out of the voting booth.

Donna Edwards

An interview by Bill Press with Congresswoman Donna Edwards on the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. She says Dr. King’s message is even more important today with our nation’s extreme wealth gap.

Vic Fingerhut

Fingerhut is a veteran Democratic political consultant. He helped design the 1995 national TV ad campaign that attacked and defeated Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” Here he discusses what Democrats in the United States can learn from Canada’s progressive third-party’s recent sweeping victories.

Maegan Carberry

Maegan Carberry is a media strategist and commentator focused on politics, media and tech with a flair for pop culture. She presently serves as Rock the Vote’s Communications Director. We’ll talk with her about proposed state laws across the country to shrink the number of young people casting votes in the 2012 election.

Sachin Chheda

Sachin Chheda is chair of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin. He joined us on March 4 with an update on Governor Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill: the Democratic senators trying to block it and public employee protesters opposed to it.

Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the "powers that be on behalf of the powers that ought to be."

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 90 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.

As political columnist Molly Ivins said, "If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor."

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